Malt-kiln floor



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P. WEINIG.`

M ALT KILN FLOOR. 'N0.`28l,326. Patented July 17, 1883.

- B www??? UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcEo PAUL WEINIG, OF HANAU, PRUSSIA,GERMANY, ASSIGNOR' TO FREDERICK W. WOLF, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MALT-KILN FLOORi SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.281,326, dated July 17, 1883.

' Application filed November 10, 188i'. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, PAUL WEINIG, a citizen of Germany, residing at Hanau,in the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Malt-Kiln Floors and Ihereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to that class of maltkiln iioors in whichwedge-shaped wires or bars are bound together, parallel with each other,in tiles or sections of the desired size, and my invention consists inthe particular construction of the said bars, whereby, when providedwith suitable means for securing them together, as described, they arermly held in position and incidentally maintained at the proper distanceapart, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a section of my iiooring;Fig. 2, a side elevation of one of the bars constituting the same; Fig.3, a transverse section of the tile, taken 3 at one side of the ringsthrough which the connecting rod or bolt passes; Fig. 4, a transversesection of the same taken through the said rings apart from theconnecting-rod or bolt; and Fig. 5, transverse sections of the parallelrods.

To form the barsI take round wires and bend them in such manner as toform rings fv, the remainder of the wire remaining straight. Throughthese rings rods A are to be passed to hold the wires together inposition. This I am aware is not broadly new, and I do not claim it asmy invention. Having thus formed the wires with rings in the properpositions, I compress the wires into the wedge-shaped form shown,without, however, iiattening the rings, except above the lower edge ofthe wire. The pressure brought to bear upon the wire is of sufficientforce to cause it, at the crossingpoint above the ring, to be swagedtogether, one part into the other, so as to forma straight wedge-shapedpiece, B. The swaging-imple ment is provided with depressions whichcause the ring, on one side of the bar at least, to project beyond theupper edge of the bar, as

shown at u, and on the other side to lie preferably even with the upperedge of the bar, as shown at t. Thus when the wires are put togetherupon the rods A they are separated from each other just to the extentwhich the ring v projects beyond the upper edges of the wire on thesides. The connecting-rods A may be of any desired length, and the rodsforming the sections may be held together by means of nuts or pins.

Although I have confined myself in the above description of my inventionto its application in malt-kiln floors, it may be used with equaladvantage for other purposes-such as a grain-separator, where it isdesired to separate the fine from coarser grain, or a sandsifter.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, the barA herein described for use inthe manufacture of malt-kiln iioors, 85o., the same being formed of Wirebent upon itself to form rings o at intervals, with the part aside fromthe rings swaged into a wedge-shaped form, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. In a malt-kiln iioor, sections or tiles of any desired length, formedof wires bent to Vform rings v, and compressed into a wedgeswaged into awedge-shaped form, the part of each bar above the rings `forming astraight line throughout the whole length of the said bar, substantiallyas described.

PAUL VEINIG.

ln presence of- F. VOGELER, J. GRUND.

